Managing the Future - Six Guidelines for Designing Environmental Scanning Systems
ISBN
978-3-642-20632-0
Type
conference paper
Date Issued
2011-05-05
Author(s)
Editor(s)
Jain, Hemant
Sinha, Atish P.
Vitharana, Padmal
Research Team
IWI1
Abstract
The 2008/2009 economic crisis provided a sustainable impulse for improving environmental scanning systems. Although a substantial body of knowledge exists, these concepts are not often used by practitioners. Based on a literature research, this article outlines six guidelines for designing environmental scanning systems that are more applicable than the state of the art. We incorporate these guidelines in a six-step method and focus on how the capabilities of modern information systems (IS) enable a better grasp of weaksignals and a closer incorporation of the findings into the executives decisionmaking process. Applying this reworked method at a raw materials and engineering company leads to a first instantiation-the Corporate Radar. The version discussed here ends with a value-driver tree showing economic value added at risk on top. The resulting lessons learned helped us in two ways: providing concrete starting points for future research and arguing for the research method presented here.
Language
English
HSG Classification
not classified
Refereed
Yes
Book title
Service-Oriented Perspectives in Design Science Research
Publisher
Springer
Publisher place
Berlin, Heidelberg
Volume
LNCS 6629
Start page
276
End page
290
Pages
15
Event Title
6th International Conference on Design Science Research in Information Systems and Technology (DESRIST 2011)
Event Location
Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA)
Event Date
05.-06.05.2011
Subject(s)
Division(s)
Eprints ID
214400